Summary: Journey back 15,000 years to trace humankind's incredible journey through time. Beginning with humanity's exodus from the Ice Age and chronicling milestones such as hunter-gatherer, farmer, builder, and city organizer. Reveals how humankind managed to survive and conquer the world. Explores the motivation of early humankind and its epic transformation to reveal the inspiring story of he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIRBerger, Lee
Summary: "This thrilling book takes the reader into South African caves to discover fossil remains that reframe the human family tree"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2023
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Summary: Twenty-four 30 minute lectures detailing the evolution of humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.93 KINBraden, Gregg
Summary: "Human by Design invites you on a journey beyond Darwin's theory of evolution, beginning with the fact that we exist as we do, even more empowered, and more connected with ourselves and the world, than scientists have believed possible. In one of the great ironies of the modern world, the science that was expected to solve life's mysteries has done just the opposite. New discoveries have led to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 BRARooney, Anne
Summary: How did our extraordinary species go from living as simple apes to becoming the planet's dominant life-form? This beautifully illustrated book traces the journey of humanity from prehistory to the silicon age. People love to tell stories, and this fascinating book tells the greatest tale of them all--how we came to be who we are today. Explore how we developed into modern humans, and how we've...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcturus 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 909 ROOBerger, Lee R
Summary: "This first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution. A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on thehuman family tree and one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century. In 2013, Berger, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 569.8 BERStringer, Chris
Summary: Outlines a reassessment of human evolution that draws on recent fossil findings and challenges current theories to say that humans coexisted and competed across the African continent while exchanging genes, tools, and behaviors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books, Henry Holt and Company 2012
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Summary: "In this remarkable and enlivening study, Stefanos Geroulanos traces the development of our modern fascination with humanity's deep past, and lays out that fascination's deadly costs." --Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century An eminent historian tells the story of how we came to obsess over the origins of humanity--and how, for three centuries, ideas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: A Dartmouth anthropologist whose team discovered two ancient human species explores how our evolution toward bipedalism rendered us dominant, innovative, more compassionate, and more susceptible to health problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.93 DESTeilhard de Chardin, Pierre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1965
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 573.2 TEICole, Joanna
Summary: When Arnold wishes he had more information for his family tree, Ms. Frizzle revs up the Magic School Bus and the class zooms back to prehistoric times. First stop: 3.5 billion years ago! There aren't any people around to ask for directions. Luckily Ms. Frizzle has a plan, and the class is right there to watch simple cells become sponges and then fish and dinosaurs, then mammals and early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLZimmer, Carl
Summary: New discoveries in the field of human evolution are changing our understanding of human origins almost daily. What does all this new knowledge about our species mean? Science journalist Zimmer offers an illuminating journey through our ancestry, beginning 65 million years ago with the first primates and ending today, as we enter a new phase of evolution. Along the way he re-examines the major...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.93 ZIMDarwin, Charles
Contents: The voyage of the Beagle (1845) -- On the origin of species (1859) -- The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex (1871) -- The expression of the emotions in man and animals (1872).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.82 DARJohanson, Donald C.
Summary: In this sequel to the "New York Times" bestseller "Lucy: The Beginnings of Mankind," celebrated paleoanthropologist Johanson, along with Wong, explore the extraordinary discoveries since Lucy was unearthed more than three decades ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2009